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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago (41 children)

I love Firefox. Love it.

But I keep coming across sites that don't function properly with it. Is this Firefox's fault? No - Firefox follows standards nicely. But growing numbers of sites don't, and this is a big problem at a micro and macro level.

Chrome seems to have such a foothold that it is getting away with embrace/extend/extinguish and I think it's a very sad thing.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is an especially common problem on Android. I have found many sites whose mobile version simply does not work in Firefox. It's very frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also feel their number grew in the last year. I've recently tried using Mull again (mobile firefox privacy-focused fork) after using Bromite for a year, and it was so unbearable I had to switch back. I'd say I had less websites that worked than ones that did not

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately tracker blocking can lead to even more issues as many sites have started relying on it for basic functionality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you got an example I can test? I switched to Firefox mobile over a year ago and I can't think of any time I've come across a site that didn't work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The most recent issue I had was Birds and Beans "manage subscription" page so I don't think you can test that without a coffee subscription. But here is a screenshot:

I'm not sure why it says "nightly" as I'm on the stable version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn't Firefoxs fault though, is it? Just a bad Website putting arbitrary restrictions in place

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not Firefox's fault at all. Just a website not following web standards.

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